ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

HB 2045: ballot order; names; parties; rotation

Sponsor: Representative Kolodin, LD 3

Committee on Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Overview

Requires, beginning in 2027, that each candidate for a partisan general election race must be listed a substantially equal number of times at the top, bottom and each intermediate place of the list or group.

History

Currently, for a partisan candidate race in a general election, the official ballot must list the candidates in each race in the following descending order:

1) candidates registered with a recognized political party that appeared on the gubernatorial ballot in the most recent general election for the office of governor, are listed in the order corresponding with the number of votes for each party's gubernatorial candidate in that county;

2) candidates who are registered with a recognized political party that did not appear on the gubernatorial ballot in the most recent general election for the office of governor, are listed in alphabetical order by name; and

3) independent candidates are listed in alphabetical order by name (A.R.S. § 16-502).

Provisions

1. Removes language allowing candidates' names to be placed in alphabetical order when there are fewer than or the same number of candidates seeking office as the number to be elected. (Sec. 1, 2, 3, 4)

2. Requires political parties, on the partisan section of a general election ballot, to appear a substantially equal number of times at the top, bottom and each intermediate place of the list or group of parties, starting in 2027. (Sec. 4)

3. Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1, 2, 4)

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